“Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 89 of 709
“It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived.”
“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.”
“Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.”
“Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.”
“What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.”
“The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.”
“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.”
“I was playing in the juniors at Wimbledon I forgot to turn my mobile phone off. It was lying there in my bag and it rang in the middle of a match, and it was one of my friends from school saying, 'Murray, you're on the telly!' I learnt from that. I now put my phone on silent.”
“The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.”
“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.”
“The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.”
“The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.”
“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
“I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.”
“Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.”
“I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue.”
“Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.”
“Health is worth more than learning.”
“Dressing well is a form of good manners.”